Princess Miri: An Erotic Coming of Age Monster Romance Novel (Miri's Monster, The Complete Series) (12 page)

I
bet he won't like that!  I know I wouldn't, except I'm not your boyfriend and I
hate you so I find it absolutely hilarious!  It really is funny and I've been
laughing a lot.

I'll
give you the night to rest, as a courtesy, but I'm visiting the castle right
now, so I expect you to meet with me on the morrow.  We can discuss the terms
of my silence in regards to your troll coupling then.  Meet me at the gazebo in
the gardens around noontime.

Talk
to you then,

Fleur."

M
iri spent the entire night tossing
and turning.  She was so nervous, unsure, and she didn't know what to do.  Was
it her fault?  Something wrong with her, some flaw?  Before this, before
everything, she would have known for certain that it wasn't.  How could it be? 
She was perfect.  But now, just going through this sort of ordeal, she wasn't
sure.

It
all started with Thump.  Fleur gave him to her for her birthday, though at the
time Miri didn't understand why.  The Princess and the Millicent girl never got
along.  In fact, Miri had stolen Fleur's boyfriend, Roy, a few months prior to
receiving Thump as a present.  Odd, that, receiving a troll slave as a present,
but Miri kind of liked it.

It
was different.  Thump was different.  He listened to her and did as she asked,
and he never questioned anything she said.  When she yelled at him, he never
looked annoyed with her, but accepted it.  And, yes, perhaps she yelled at him
for rather ridiculous reasons sometimes, but they were important reasons to her
and so she needed to do it.  She didn't know if Thump understood this, or if he
understood anything, but she liked to think he did.  He was... he was her
slave, a present, a gift and an object she owned, but he was a lot more than
that, too.  She liked Thump and she didn't know what she would do without him.

Unfortunately
none of that mattered.

Everything
was going splendid!  It was, it had been, except after her and Thump's most
recent romp in the freshly emptied castle dungeons, she'd found a picture of
him and her on the wall of her bedroom.  Or, somewhat her bedroom.  The
specifics didn't matter, but she shared the room with Allysin, and she had no
doubts that Allysin wouldn't have put the picture there.  The letter attached
to the picture confirmed as much, anyways.

Unable
to sleep, she thought about the contents of the note once more.

"Dear
Miri,

How
have you been?  I hope you've been enjoying your birthday present.  It sure
looks like it, doesn't it?  Don't worry, I have a bunch of these, so I can
share them with everyone.  I won't yet, though.

I
expect you'll want to think things over, and realize just what I'm doing.  If
you haven't figured it out yet, I'm going to blackmail you.  This is Fleur, by
the way.  The girl who was dating Roy before you stole him?  I wonder what
he'll think of you having sex with a troll.

I
bet he won't like that!  I know I wouldn't, except I'm not your boyfriend and I
hate you so I find it absolutely hilarious!  It really is funny and I've been
laughing a lot.

I'll
give you the night to rest, as a courtesy, but I'm visiting the castle right
now, so I expect you to meet with me on the morrow.  We can discuss the terms
of my silence in regards to your troll coupling then.  Meet me at the gazebo in
the gardens around noontime.

Talk
to you then,

Fleur."

The
picture in question showed Miri laying on her old bed in her old room with
Thump atop her.  His massive troll cock was practically splitting her in two,
while her spread legs wrapped around his waist in wanton abandon.  This was the
culmination of their first ever sexual encounter, and on the bed below Miri,
soaking into the sheets, the picture showed thick, excessive amounts of Thump's
cum.

Tired
and spent, having spent the evening in the dungeons playing sex games with
Thump, Miri had snapped wide awake upon seeing the picture.  It was midsummer,
but she lit a fire in the hearth in Allysin's room(the room Miri was borrowing
while her old one was being renovated after mishaps involving sex with Thump)
and immediately tossed the picture into the hearth.  It blazed, plumes of dark
smoke curling up the chimney, but it wasn't enough.

Fleur
had more pictures.  Who knew how many?  It didn't matter because one was
enough.

It
occurred to Miri that this all might be a scam.  Fleur couldn't really
know
what Miri was doing, could she? 
Except the details of the picture, the exceptional quality, it must be magic. 
A rarity, and something most people would never have access to, but somewhere,
somehow, the Millicent family must have gained ownership of a magical heirloom
capable of spying into Miri's room and capturing images of what went on inside.

She
wanted to sleep, but she couldn't, so she tossed off the blankets and sat
upright.  Unfortunately this severely annoyed Allysin, who was sleeping right
next to her.

"Miri,"
Allysin said with a disgruntled moan.  "What are you doing?  You keep
moving about while I'm trying to sleep."

"Shush,"
Miri said.  "This is important."

"It
honestly better be, because... because..."

Miri
forgave her friend for her insolence, because she was Allysin.  That was just
what she did sometimes, though most of the time she was good about being
proper.

"Look,"
Miri said to no one in particular.  "Alright.  There's a thing I must
know."  She leaned over the bed and stared at Thump, who was—or used to
be—sleeping on the floor.  Currently he lay there, peering up at her in the
dim darkness of the moonlit night.

"Thump,"
she said, staring at him.  "You saw the picture, right?  How did that get
there?  Did you put something in my room so Fleur could see what we did?"

Thump
fidgeted on the floor.  Miri continued staring at him.  He looked towards the
wall, refusing to meet her gaze.  When she kept staring, rejecting his lack of
answer, he feigned sleeping by closing his eyes and letting out loud snores.

"Thump!"
Miri shrieked, tossing a pillow at him.  "I'm not going to be mad at you,
just tell me!"

"I
think you're actually going to be mad at him," Allysin said. 
"Sometimes I don't think it's possible for you not to be mad."

"Dammit,
Allysin, go back to bed!  I'm not talking to you.  I'm having a friendly
conversation with Thump."

"It
doesn't sound friendly.  And how do you expect me to sleep when you're throwing
pillows around the room and screaming?"

Miri
ignored her, intent on gaining an answer from Thump.

Thump
opened one eye, looking up at her, fearful.  He was so large, some monstrous,
ten foot tall troll with bulging cords of muscle on every part of his body. 
But, he respected her, didn't he?  Miri liked and respected him, too, and
sometimes she let him gain control of the situation, to take her, lift her into
the air, carry her around and treat her as nothing but a toy for his
amusement.  Sexually, mostly, but a few times they played at other things. 
She... she loved... no, she very much liked Thump and she wanted to reassure
herself that he had nothing to do with this.

"Yah,"
Thump said, his voice barely above a whisper.  "Thump do thing.  Put
animal on Miri shelf.  Fleur say do, so Thump do.  Is good?  Miri like
animal?"

Miri
stared at him, dumbfounded.  So that was it?  Fleur first sent him in regular
clothes, though quite overlarge and nothing like the loincloth(and nothing
else) Miri made him wear now.  Somewhere in his outfit he'd brought a hidden
stuffed animal and placed it on her shelf with the rest that she owned?  Which
made sense, since she would never notice anything amiss up there.  She kept her
childhood toys out of random nostalgia, but they'd lived long past their time
for amusing her.

Thump
fidgeted, squirmed on the floor.  His lips cracked into the faintest hint of a
smile.  When Miri didn't react, he pushed it further, looking up at her with
that huge, goofy grin of his.  In the faint glimmer from the moonlight, Miri
saw his yellowed teeth shining slightly.

"Get
out," she said.  No screaming, no anger, just a simple, emotionless
command.  "Go sleep in the dungeons.  I don't want to see you."

Thump
frowned, his eyes glistening.  Tears?  Miri wanted to laugh!  What kind of
monster cried?  Thump was a troll, some fearsome humanoid beast.

"Miri,"
Thump whispered; a one word plea.

"Leave,"
she said.

Thump
left, his lumbering, hulking form raising off the floor and skulking towards
the bedroom door.  He looked back over his shoulder, a glimmer of hope in his
expression, but Miri ignored him.  She tossed the sheets back over her and
shoved Allysin under the blankets, too.  Her friend let out a muffled whine of
complaint, but went under the covers nonetheless.

Miri
lay there, silent and still, until she heard the bedroom door open and close,
Thump's footfalls echoing down the hallway outside.  Then, as if her world was
ending, she cried.

Long,
hard, a wet, torrential mess.  Sometime that night, she fell asleep.

Miri
woke the next morning feeling refreshed.  She understood what happened last
night, and what she'd done, but did it matter?  Yes, it did somewhat, but she
refused to admit it.  Today was a new day and she would do new day things. 
Perhaps she'd buy a new dress and wear it to dinner.  She'd ask the cooks in
the kitchens to prepare a new meal, and she'd see if the servants could set out
new furniture throughout the castle.  Maybe someone could requisition new
lanterns for the new night, and she'd remove everyone from service as her
father's workers and hire replacements anew.  New guards, new chancellor, new
economic advisor.  New everything.

Maybe
she would do that, but right now she didn't want to.  Right now she wanted
something else.

Turning
to Allysin, she nudged her friend's shoulder with the palm of her hand. 
"Hey!  Allysin?  Are you awake?"

Allysin
grunted in her sleep.  "Nngghh."

Miri
pushed the girl's shoulder harder.  "Hey?  Allysin!  Wake up."

Allysin
stayed put, so Miri shoved her hard, and then finally the servant girl flipped
over to face her.

"What!"
Allysin said, nothing even close to a question.

"I
want to talk to you," Miri said.  "It's morning."

"Look,"
Allysin said, "I'm sleeping and... whoa!  Whoa, whoa, no, Miri, stop
that."

Stop
what?  Oh, oops.  Belatedly, Miri realized she was crying again.

"Why
are you crying?" Allysin asked.

"Nothing,"
Miri said.  "I have something in my eye."

"Don't
lie to me."

"I'm
not lying!"

"Fine. 
Fine.  Just..."

Miri
wiped her eyes with the bed sheets and composed herself.  "I'm not
lying," she said.  "And don't you ever dare speak to me like that
again.  I'm the princess of this castle and you are my servant."

"Whoa,
huh?" Allysin asked.  She looked alarmed, one eyebrow raised.

Yes,
Miri thought.  This was how it was, and how it should be.  She knew what to do
now.  She understood how to fix everything.

Before
Allysin realized it, Miri jumped on top of the girl.  She stared down at her
friend, relishing in the confusion in her expression, and then she slapped her
lightly across the face.

"What
are you doing?" Allysin asked, agitated.

Miri
covered her friend's mouth before she could say more.  "I've been relaxed
for far too long, Allysin.  You just go around the castle doing whatever you
like, without a care in the world.  You fucked my troll yesterday, didn't you? 
Just fucked him without asking.  Not that I would have let you if you asked,
but you knew that, didn't you?  And you still did it."

With
Miri's hand covering her mouth, Allysin could do nothing more than nod.  Eyes
wide, she stared up at the princess.

"Did
you like it?" Miri asked, sneering.  "Fucking some brute of a monster
like that?  That's ridiculous!  I've never heard of something like that in my
life.  It's practically as bad as fucking a dog, isn't it?  You're... you're
some worthless whore who can't even find a man to stick his dick in your pussy
so you resort to the only thing left to you, right?"

Allysin
wasn't moving now.  She looked up at Miri with this despicable look in her
eyes; some mix of sympathy and concern.  Miri hated it.  She moved her hand
away from the girl's mouth and slapped her again.

"I
don't care what your reasons were!" Miri screamed.  "I don't care
that maybe he's a nice troll and he likes you and he listens to what you have
to say.  I don't care about any of that!  You're a filthy, dirty slut,
Allysin.  It doesn't matter that Thump does what you ask without complaint and
he's learning to speak another language just to please you or... or... it
doesn't matter!  Do you hear me?  It's absurd!  It's... you had sex with a
troll and... and it's..."

Miri
toppled onto the bed.  She felt so tired, exhausted, and she desperately wanted
to curl up into a ball and hide from the world, but she couldn't.  Allysin
smiled at her, calm and reassuring, and Miri wanted to hug her.  They did just
that, with Miri scooting over so Allysin could put her arms around her. 
Embraced, warm, cuddling in bed, Miri felt a little bit better.

"I
think Thump's really nice," Allysin said.  "I'm sure he didn't mean
to hurt you.  Do you want to tell me what happened?"

Miri
told her.  She mentioned everything from last night, showed her the letter, and
described the picture she'd found hanging on the wall.  It didn't help the
situation, but telling Allysin made her feel a little bit more better still.

At
noon, Miri went to the central gazebo in the castle gardens.  She brought Thump
with her, because... because she didn't know why she brought him.  She just did
it.  She was the Princess and she could do what she wanted.

"Thump,"
she said to him before they left, when she went roaming around the outside of
the dungeons.  She didn't go because she wanted to see him or anything; she
needed to check one of the chipped tiles on the floor.  And why didn't the
castle architect fix that?  It was quite distinctly a small chip in the side of
the tile about the size of an eyelash and it frustrated her beyond belief.